Samantha Woll.Photo:David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP
David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP
For the second time, Detroit police have taken into custody a person of interest in connection with the slaying of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll, the department confirms with PEOPLE.
Detroit police did not clarify whether the person of interest is the same person who was taken into custody in November but later released. Police did not specify the date on which the person was apprehended.
Woll, who was the Board President of theIsaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue, was found stabbed to death outside her home in Lafayette Park, Mich., in October. She was 40.
She was pronounced dead at the scene when police found her body with multiple stab wounds after a witness reported seeing her unresponsive on the ground and called 911,PEOPLEreported at the time.
In the immediate aftermath of her killing, many feared the homicide was a targeted antisemitic attack, but police have said they don’t believe that to be the case.
In November, police took oneperson into custodyas a person of interest, PEOPLE reported at the time. That person wasreleasedtwo days later.
Detroit Chief James E. White said in October that Woll was returning from a wedding where she was her “normal positive and pleasant self," according to witnesses.
He said police believe she “stumbled” out and “collapsed” outside her home after being stabbed inside, leaving a trail of blood, PEOPLE reported at the time. She was on the street for “quite a while” before being discovered, White added.
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Woll was a beloved member of the community who also worked with numerous political figures. She was “a ray of sunshine” and was “always present in all the right ways,” her family said in anobituaryfollowing her killing.
TheDetroit Free Pressreported at the time that Woll worked for Rep. Elissa Slotkin, as well as Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on her reelection campaign before she began serving on the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue.
Detroit police expect to release “additional information” about the investigation “in the near future,” they said in their Monday statement.
source: people.com
